Manager, Data Engineering

Who We Are

Invitation Homes is a fast-paced evolving publicly traded REIT that is pioneering a new industry with over 110,000 single family rental homes and a market capitalization of over $25 billion. We are a team of more than 1,400 associates who come from all walks of life. We call different communities “home,” but our shared values bind us together. Invitation Homes is a place where possibility lives.

The Manager of Data Engineering will be responsible for leading and managing a Data Engineering team that is developing and maintaining software systems used by employees and partners of Invitation Homes. We are looking for a Technology Manager that has demonstrated progressive experience in coding, architecture leadership, and leading data engineers in a fast-paced environment. This position is a mix of partnering with our business stakeholders to identify and define data, analytics and reporting needs, solution design and architecture, and management responsibilities, with a strong emphasis on delivering technology solutions.

Invitation Homes does not offer employment-based visa sponsorship for this role at this time.

What You’ll Do 

Enterprise Data Product & Stakeholder Collaboration 

• Partner closely with Enterprise Data Product teams to translate strategic initiatives into technical designs, feature requirements, and engineering workplans.
• Work collaboratively with data product managers, analytics teams, and peer technology groups to identify data needs, define requirements, and prioritize backlog items.
• Support discovery sessions, refinement, architectural reviews, and cross-functional planning required to deliver enterprise equality data assets.

Pipeline Development Ownership 

• Design, build, and launch scalable, efficient data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and delivery across the Data Lake and Enterprise Data Warehouse. 
• Own and manage data pipeline operations, including performance tuning, observability, maintenance, and optimization for cost and reliability. 
• Serve as a hands-on technical leader: guide engineering decisions, write and review code, support debugging, and ensure adherence to engineering best practices.  
• Ensure all data pipelines, models, and services align with Enterprise Data governance standards, including naming conventions, modeling guidelines, metadata completeness, and lineage expectations. 
• Implement robust alerting, automation, and data reliability engineering practices to ensure data freshness, SLA compliance, and consistent availability for business-critical processes. 
• Promote reusable patterns, shared assets, and cross-domain consistency to support enterprise reporting, analytics, and self-service capabilities.

Operational Leadership & Team Management 

• Lead and manage a team of data engineers (onsite, offshore, and contract), including hiring, coaching, and professional development.
• Cultivate a collaborative, inclusive, and growth-oriented team culture aligned with company values. 
• Define technical deliverables, timelines, milestones, and dependencies; ensure predictable, transparent delivery across sprint cycles.
• Support, troubleshoot, and resolve production data issues to ensure continuity of analytics, reporting, and operational workflows.
• Make informed recommendations on future data architectures, integration patterns, pipelines, and emerging technologies.

  

Who We’re Looking For 

Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.  
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or Business Intelligence, 2+ years in a hands-on technical leadership or management role. 
• Strong foundation in data architecture, schema design, and dimensional modeling.  
• Expertise in ETL/ELT development and modern cloud-based data warehouse technologies (Snowflake, Redshift, etc.).  
• Experience with AWS cloud services, workflow orchestration (Airflow, AWS Glue), and transformation frameworks (dbt). 
• Strong coding skills in Python/SQL and ability to guide the team through code reviews, design discussions, and debugging. 
• Familiarity with one or more modern reporting stacks: Tableau, Power BI, Qlik, or Looker
• Experience working in Agile development environments and modern DevOps-aligned processes. 
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and presentation skills; ability to align technical solutions with business needs. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience with stream processing technologies (Kafka, Spark Streaming, Storm).  
• Familiarity with Salesforce and Yardi data structures within real estate environments.  
• Experience supporting enterprise data governance frameworks, data catalog platforms, or lineage tools. 
• Prior work in semantic modeling 

Why Invitation Homes

We stand for flexibility, opportunity, and a home that people can make their own. It’s as true for our associates as it is for our residents. Just like we help our residents live freer, we liberate our associates’ careers, too. Our associates know that at Invitation Homes goals matter, potential is unlocked, and careers thrive. Invitation Homes isn’t just a work place it is a possibility place. Invitation Homes offers the below to each new associate:

• Competitive pay and an annual bonus program for all associates
• Generous paid time off plans including vacation accrual, sick time, volunteer time, and standard and floating holidays
• 401k with matching company contributions
• Awesome work environment with casual dress
• Team events and gatherings
• Employee resource groups: Together with Women, Asian Alliance, Black Collective, Juntos, Gen Next, and Open Invitation.

Invitation Homes truly is where possibility lives, pour a new foundation here!

Salary RangeThe salary range for this position is: $120,000.00 - $208,000.00, plus individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications, location, and applicable employment laws.

Compensation and Benefits

To attract and retain top talent, we're pleased to offer competitive compensation and benefits, including:

• Annual bonus program

• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance

• Long-term and short-term disability insurance

• Generous paid time off plans include vacation accrual, sick time, standard holidays and floating holidays

• 401(k) with company matching contributions

• Awesome work environment with casual dress

• Team events and gatherings (Pre- and Post-Covid)

Invitation Homes is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive and innovative environment with the best associates. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, Veteran status or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact us at [email protected].

To all recruitment agencies: Invitation Homes does not accept agency resumes.  Please do not forward resumes to Invitation Homes employees.  Invitation Homes is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. 

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